Jessica Kelly

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Dr Peter Leech has recorded a landmark CD, The Cardinal King: Music for Henry Benedict Stuart in Rome, 1740-91, with his professional period ensemble Cappella Fede. It is due to be released shortly on the Toccata Classics label. Here he writes on his research into the Cardinal, an influential Italian music patron, and the composers underRead more

We recently teamed up with the poet James Nash and the Cardiff-York Universities Coma and Disorders of Consciousness Research Centre to put together an evening of new music by some of our postgraduate composers exploring the themes of coma and consciousness. This will take place here on Saturday 12 November as part of theRead more

The image of Vienna as a musical city is a familiar one and it has long been associated with many of the most significant developments in Western music. A new book by Professor David Wyn Jones explores, for the first time, the history of music within the city. Music in Vienna: 1700, 1800, 1900, publishedRead more

Dr John Jewell from the University’s School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies examines how Cardiff students a century ago communicated and dealt with the life changing events which began in 1914… Gair Rhydd (Free Word) is the newspaper of Cardiff University’s students with a potential audience of nearly 29,000 readers all expecting to read a paper which canRead more

Dr Clair Rowden has contributed to a new BBC4 documentary series exploring the transformation of music in the 19th century. Revolution and Romance: Musical Masters of the 19th Century sees Suzy Klein tell the story of how music became the leading art form in an age of political and industrial revolution. Dr Rowden, whose researchRead more

Dr John Jewell from the University’s School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies has been working with us on our Commemorating WW1: Conflict and Creativity events series. He will be taking part in a number of events later this year, including delivering a talk on Propaganda and Recruitment during WW1 as part of our lunchtime lecture series atRead more

Commemorating World War One: Conflict and Creativity is our public engagement project funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council to design and deliver events to commemorate the First World War centenary. It’s been fascinating to hear some of the different family memories and histories that people at our events have been sharing with us, like this storyRead more